The table in Part A represents y as a function of x. This means that the value of Y is dependent on the value of X. The table can be represented by an equation that describes the relation of X and Y:

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By substituting any value of X, you get a specific value of Y based from the given relationship, thus Y is a function of X.
For Part B, the value of f(150) is $470 and it represents the total cost for borrowing a rowboat for 150 hours. By substituting the value of x = 150 into the function, you get the total cost:
Answer:
10
Step-by-step explanation:
The mean of the confidence interval is (0.3775 + 0.6225) / 2 = 0.5. Therefore, the standard deviation of the proportion would have been sqrt[0.5*(1 - 0.5) / n], where n is the sample size. This expression simplifies to sqrt(0.25/n).
A 95% CI has a corresponding z = 1.96, so since the distance from 0.5 to 0.3775 (or 0.6225 to 0.5) is equal to 0.1225. Therefore, if we divide 0.1225 / 1.96 = 0.0625, we get the value of the SD, and this should be equal to sqrt(0.25/n).
0.0625 = sqrt(0.25/n)
n = 64
This means that the proportion was 0.5 and the sample size was 64.
We can know the answer to this by letting p(x) be equal to zero and by substituting the values of x to the function.

To know what to substitute, we equate all factors to zero since even if only one of these factors is zero, the product of all factors would immediately be zero.
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We then try to substitute each value of x to the original polynomial and see if it will equal to zero.
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As we can see, all but number 1 equated to zero therefore numbers 2, 3, and 4 are all linear factors of p(x).
ANSWER: Numbers 2, 3, and 4.